Melissa of the Hills (1917)
Melissa Stark, a young girl in the Tennessee mountains tries to unite feuding families (Allisons & Watts) and help her preacher father, Jethro, while navigating romance with lawyer Tom Williams and a mistaken identity crisis that leads to her father's tragic death, after which the families reconcile. The story involves a newspaper ad for a dress, a mistaken identification of Jethro as a murder fugitive by a deputy sheriff, and a violent confrontation that ends with Jethro's innocence proven but his life lost.
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Melissa Stark, a young girl in the Tennessee mountains tries to unite feuding families (Allisons & Watts) and help her preacher father, Jethro, while navigating romance with lawyer Tom Williams and a mistaken identity crisis that leads to her father's tragic death, after which the families reconcile. The story involves a newspaper ad for a dress, a mistaken identification of Jethro as a murder fugitive by a deputy sheriff, and a violent confrontation that ends with Jethro's innocence proven but his life lost.
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Genre:Drama
Written By:Maibelle Heikes Justice
In Theaters:7/23/1917
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Runtime:50 minutes
Studio:American Film Company
Cast
James Kirkwood
Director
Mary Miles Minter
Melissa Stark
Spottiswoode Aitken
Jethro Stark
Allan Forrest
Tom Williams
George Periolat
Cyrus Kimball
John Gough
Larry Watts
Anne Schaefer
Sally Smith
Perry Banks
Dr. Brand
Gertrude Le Brandt
Mrs. Sanders
Harry Clark
Cutler Sanders
Frank Thompson
Sam Allison
Emma Kluge
Mrs. Watts
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